From Seattle PI:

Beginning in March, you will be able to fly nonstop from Sea-Tac Airport to the Mideast.
The Port of Seattle said Wednesday that Emirates Airlines, the world's largest international carrier, will begin daily service from Sea-Tac to Dubai, United Arab Emirates on March 1, 2012.
Emirates flies to more than 100 destinations in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
The port said it had been negotiating with the airline for several years. Sea-Tac will become the fifth airport in the U.S. that Emirates will serve and the third on the West Coast.
The airline already flies to San Francisco and Los Angeles and announced Wednesday that it will also add service to Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Sea-Tac flights will use Boeing 777-300ER aircraft with 354 seats.
The flight from Sea-Tac is expected to take 15 hours. Such major Seattle-area businesses as Boeing, Microsoft and Amazon and their foreign-born employees are expected to be a major market for the Sea-Tac flights.
The new service also brings additional international cargo lift to Seattle with 15-ton freight capacity on the aircraft, serving one of the largest cargo hubs in the world. Dubai ranked eighth in the world in cargo for 2010, the Port of Seattle said.
"Connecting Washington state to the rest of the world is essential to grow jobs and create new business opportunities," Gov. Chris Gregoire said in a statement. "This new nonstop flight from Seattle makes it that much easier to reach the Middle East, and likewise - for tourists and business leaders from the Dubai region to visit our beautiful state. I congratulate both the Port of Seattle and Emirates Airlines - and am confident this new flight will bring new economic development possibilities to the Pacific Northwest."

 

Piece of cake. They've been flying to Houston for years; SEATAC is almost 600 nm closer.
LAX, I think, is the longest trip they fly to North America. It's a little longer than DXB-IAH.

 

They also announced DFW daily service as well

 

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Emirates to go all A380 to the US in five years | Plane Talking


Clark’s comments help us understand what Emirates plans to do with up to 90 A380s, bearing in mind that some of that total order book is for replacing the early A380s, as this is an airline with a fleet that has a unit average age of six years and two months.

It intends to fly them between Dubai and dozens of tier one long haul cities, including its entire US network, while deploying dozens of 777s and A330/A350s on shorter destinations in nearer parts of Europe, Africa and Asia, where frequency of service in ‘smaller’ sized wide body jets are commercially desirable.

As made clear in various international news reports, these ambitions by Emirates are giving rise to ferocious criticism from other airlines, including Lufthansa and Air Canada, who have embarked on what we would call a political crusade against this heathen juggernaut, if we were culturally insensitive.

Clark said he intends to at least double the number of US cities it flies to in the same period that it is looking to optimise all of those flights to A380s.

 

Excellent for the airline, and my sympathy to those stuck on those potential beer cans and razor blades for 15 hours at a clip.